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Parental preferences key to improved compliance during occlusion therapy
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BIRMINGHAM, England — Parental preferences should be considered when occlusion therapy is planned if patient compliance is to improve, according to a study. For maintenance occlusion, study authors recommend physicians prescribe the number of hours of occlusion required per week and allow parents the responsibility of implementation.
Ajay Tripathi and colleagues here at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre broke two groups of parents of strabismic or anisometropic amblyopic children to determine occlusion therapy preferences. The first group of parents (47) had no previous experience with occlusion; the second group (53) had some previous experience with occlusion.
A significant number of parents in the first group (95.3%) preferred part-day/full-week occlusion therapy for their children, while there was no such preference in the second group of parents. Most often, the reasons cited for the preferences included lifestyles of the families involved.
The study is published in the December issue of Ophthalmologica.